[a](A)Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have [b]opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is [c]written of me.
(B)I delight to do Your will, O my God;
(C)Your Law is within my heart.”

I have (D)proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will (E)not restrain my lips,
O Lord, (F)You know.
10 I have (G)not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have (H)spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:6 I.e. Blood sacrifice
  2. Psalm 40:6 Lit dug; or possibly pierced
  3. Psalm 40:7 Or prescribed for